need a favour please

meylan Guest

hi, ive yet to find the problem thats causing fs9 to freeze up and i need to cross something off my list . could someone please do this for me it wont take 60 seconds .

go into programmes>microsoft games>fs9>troubleshoot>safe mode.

when its loaded in safe mode go into setting>display .

are the terrain and water sliders all the way to left ?
are some of the sliders under harware all the way to the left ?
do you get some kind of error message about hardware excelleration?

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Pitt Trainee

Whats your computer specification like whats the cpu, how many mb ram etc.

Jamie4590 Guest

I don't have FS9 so I cant check but out of interest does it lock up just when your in bad weather or is it completely random? If you have a 3D accelerator graphics card check in the FS9 menu to make sure you taking full advantage of your card. If you havn't already download the latest Direct X drivers from Microsoft website.

meylan Guest

asrock mother board
amd sempron 2400+
768mb of ram
ati radeon 9800 pro

things ive tried .

reinstalling fs9
installing 3 diiferent ati drivers
decreased cpu temp with an extra fan
tried numerous combination with autostart
reinstalled directx
reduced sound hardware accelleration
reinstalled agpsis gart drive

symtoms: sim freezes have to do hard reboot

meylan Guest

could someone please do the favour i asked in the 1st post of this thred please , it will take less than a minute. thanks

spuddi Guest

i've done what you asked,

yes terrain and water are to the left and greyed out

also in the hardware 2 of the sliders are greyed and yes i do get that mesage about 3-d acceleration, sorry looks like you were barking up the wrong tree

meylan Guest

well at least i can rule that out thanks alot spuddi cheers 🙂

spuddi Guest

has it done this from the first time you bought it or did it used to work?

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CaptDennison First Officer

meylan wrote:

asrock mother board
amd sempron 2400+
768mb of ram
ati radeon 9800 pro

things ive tried .

reinstalling fs9
installing 3 diiferent ati drivers
decreased cpu temp with an extra fan
tried numerous combination with autostart
reinstalled directx
reduced sound hardware accelleration
reinstalled agpsis gart drive

symtoms: sim freezes have to do hard reboot

You need a LOT more ram--2 GIGS!!!!!

meylan Guest

i think ive fixed the freeze, lock up problem i was having with fs9 ,

in my ATI tools tray>hardware>smartgart. i changed the AGP speed from x8 to x4 .

ive just done a 2 hour test flight over EGYPT with no lock up and no performance drop . so what have i actually done by decreasing the AGP speed fom x8 to x4 .

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